Bug#614715: lintian: should warn about duplicated files under /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/
Axel Beckert wrote:
> I manually filed bugs for those 9 packages(*), but I fear that on bigger
> installations way more such cases can be found.
Indeed. These are the worst cases (single duplicated files > 100kiB) I
found on a bigger installation:
[DryRun] Linking /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/doc/asciidoc.txt to /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/examples/website/userguide.txt (-202.10 KiB)
[DryRun] Linking /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/doc/images/highlighter.png to /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/examples/website/images/highlighter.png (-125.14 KiB)
[DryRun] Linking /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/ChangeLog.gz to /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/changelog.gz (-285.01 KiB)
Will at least file yet another bug of this type against asciidoc. It
contains nearly 0.5 MB of duplicated files in
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/.
Maybe the severity of such a test could depend on the wasted disk space:
< 100 Bytes -> pedantic
< 1 kBytes -> informational
< 100 kBytes -> warning
> 100 kBytes -> error
Regards, Axel
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